Black Hand wrote: > ps uax | grep -v grep | grep '/usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/greylistd' > /dev/null A little OT and a nitpick, but this is better: ps uax | grep "/usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/greylist[d]" > /dev/null It will achieve the same (eliminating your own grep process) and will save you an exec. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.